Image outputting device

• US 9,723,252 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2014
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Hyojung, Lee, Hyunju, Choi, Sooin, Choi, Sogi
• Primary Examiner(s): Shibru, Helen
• Application Number:
  US14/507,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20150110460A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,030 Days
• Field of Search: 386226, 386223-224, 386360, 386228, 386230
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/222 Studio circuitry; Studio devices; Studio equipment cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors, or control thereof H04N23/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/79 Processing of colour television signals in connection with recording

Abstract

An image outputting device including a camera configured to obtain a viewer'"'"'s image; a display configured to reproduce content; and a controller configured to perform a dual-recording function recording both the viewer'"'"'s image and the content being reproduced, based on at least one of additional information corresponding to the content being reproduced and a result of analyzing the obtained viewer'"'"'s image.

Claims

1. An image outputting device, comprising:

a camera configured to obtain a viewer'"'"'s image;

a display configured to reproduce content; and

a controller configured to;

set up a specific condition of a dual-recording function;

reproduce the content and display the content on a whole screen of the display;

perform the dual-recording function for recording both the viewer'"'"'s image obtained by the camera and the content being reproduced, and further display the viewer'"'"'s image on a partial area overlapped with the content when the specific condition of the dual-recording function is satisfied; and

generate a dual-recording image by performing the dual-recording function and store the dual-recording image,

wherein the specific condition is determined by at least one of a highlight period among additional information of the content, a specific word among caption information of the content, a facial expression of the viewer and a predetermined gesture.

2. The image outputting device of claim 1, further comprising:

a microphone configured to receive a sound signal,

wherein the controller is further configured to;

record the sound signal received through the microphone during a period when the dual-recording function is performed, and

store the recorded sound signal separately from a sound signal of the content being reproduced.

3. The image outputting device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to store the viewer'"'"'s image recorded as a result of performing the dual-recording function in combination with an image of the content being reproduced or independently from the content being reproduced.

4. The image outputting device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a user interface for identifying whether the dual-recording function is performed.

5. The image outputting device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to exchange a display area of the content and a display area of the viewer'"'"'s image during the dual-recording function being performed.

6. The image outputting device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to terminate the dual-recording function when a predetermined time passes from a satisfaction time point of the specific condition.

7. The image outputting device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a progress bar of the content and an indicator or a thumbnail image of the viewer'"'"'s image on the progress bar corresponding to a region where the dual-recording function is performed when the stored dual-recording image is reproduced.

8. The image outputting device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a message for inquiring whether to add an additional viewer to be subjected to the dual-recording function when the additional viewer is recognized.

9. The image outputting device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display an indicator on the stored dual-recording image.

10. The image outputting device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to perform a fast forward function of the content to a time point of the dual-recording image and when the fast forward function is selected.

11. A method of controlling an image outputting device, the method comprising:

setting up a specific condition of a dual-recording function;

reproducing, on a display of the image outputting device, the content and displaying the content on a whole screen of the display;

performing, via a controller of the image outputting device, the dual-recording function for recording both the viewer'"'"'s image obtained by a camera and the content being reproduced, and further displaying the viewer'"'"'s image on a partial area overlapped with the content when the specific condition of the dual-recording function is satisfied; and

generating a dual-recording image by performing the dual-recording function and storing the dual-recording image,

wherein the specific condition is determined by at least one of a highlight period among additional information of the content, a specific word among caption information of the content, a facial expression of the viewer and a predetermined gesture.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying a user interface for identifying whether the dual-recording function is performed.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising exchanging a display area of the content and a display area of the viewer'"'"'s image while the dual-recording function is performed.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising terminating the dual-recording function when a predetermined time passes from a satisfaction time point of the specific condition.